Then again Melee was rushed, and 2 of those characters you mentioned were clones, last minute additions, each with their own explanation.
There's hardly an excuse now. Making sucky clones is one thing, but making sucky originals is another.
Oh, and might I add on the other four clones that people thought were a waste because they lacked any originality in their movesets?
And how people hated the Ice Climbers because they were teh lame?
Brawl's roster is better. Much, much, much better. Melee's roster wishes it could dream of being considered even an eighth as good.
So what is bad, then? The only bad pick would be ROB, and the only HONESTLY bad miss would be Ridley (no matter how much you want Krystal, Bowser Jr., King K. Rool, or Isaac, Metroid only has one rep and needs another, more than Star Fox, Mario, DK, and GS need). Perhaps you'll lambaste the roster size? Well, it's perfectly great. The fact of the matter is that clones don't count in this comparison - you can't compare quasi-characters to full characters. Melee has only 20 original characters, eight new. Brawl has, so far, 27 characters, 14 new. 12 new, starting characters. Melee had four. Hell, we got more newcomers in the starting roster than SSB has characters. That Melee has hidden characters. That Melee has original newcomers. The only thing Melee's got Brawl beat in so far is "number of newcomers, original or not, versus number of starting newcomers".
On top of ignoring the vast number of newcomers as well as how great most of them have been, you also ignore that he needed to spend as much time implementing Ganondorf, Young Link, and presumably Falco, since he's not just going to give them their old clone movesets and a make-over. So in all intents and purposes, those three count as new characters. So that's 17. And what with Luigi and Ness only needing new B moves, Hell, that's easy as cake. So that's 19. And then, if this roster is true (it isn't, but let's say it is), Wolf, Lucario, and ROB. That's 22. The only one that anyone could complain about is ROB, and the fact remains that people complained about G&W for the exact same reasons.
Face it. The only thing Melee beats Brawl in is the amount of complaints of the roster. It's been the exact same situation with Brawl, so tell me - what happened when people got Melee? I believe they...
liked the characters, right? Would that be correct of me to say?
There is a Major flaw in your post. One not everyone hates Game and Watch, and not everyone hated him when they first saw him. But that goes without saying that not only as smash fans but gamers as a whole have grown up. When we saw that character in melee most of us were like wth who is that? But knowing who he is most of us understand why he's in now.
ROB doesn't have that, G&W is important, ROB is not. ROB is an old extra that never really did anything major for Nintendo. G&W represents the predecessors to the game boy, the best selling line of systems ever, not only for Nintendo.
And Pichu and Doc are both clones, so while not prime character it makes sense to have them get in before other popular character. There was significantly less work to add them in than to create another entire moveset.
Melee's roster made sense. the 35 one doesn't. That doesn't mean it's fake, but I also don't think people should go around saying we should take it as fact.
The ROB bundle was the primary reason why stores decided to sell the NES, since gaming was still suffering from the crash.
Didn't do anything for Nintendo, huh?
) guess this means a higher roster would be an even bigger suprise for me now.
